Women in Trees - Hatje Cantz

A book with a vibrant pink cover titled Women in Trees, set against a white background. The cover features a black and white photograph of a woman in vintage 1920s attire, including a dress and hat, standing on the branch of a large tree.

The back of a book with a magenta border, shown against a plain white background. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of two young women smiling while sitting on a tree branch. A block of text is visible above the image, and a barcode is at the bottom.

A hardcover book titled Women in Trees, shown at an angle on a white background. The book has a vibrant magenta spine and border. Its cover features a black-and-white photograph of a woman in vintage clothing standing on a thick tree branch, with the title overlaid in a stylized magenta font.

An open book with a bright pink hardcover, seen from above against a white background. The book displays a two-page spread with black-and-white photographs. On the left page, a woman in a white dress climbs a large tree. On the right, another woman sits on a tree branch.

An open hardcover book with a magenta cover, viewed from above on a white surface. The pages display two vintage black-and-white photographs side-by-side, both featuring people in trees. The left photo shows three women in Edwardian-era clothing posing in a bare tree. The right photo shows three casually dressed young people smiling from the branches of another tree, with a dog on the lawn below.

An open book with a magenta hardcover, shot from above on a white surface. The left page features a black and white photo of two smiling women sitting on a tree branch. The right page has text with the title, What Drove These Women to Climb Into Trees?.

Women in Trees

€ 18.00

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Author: Jochen Raiß

December 2024, 112 Pages

Hardcover

134mm x 186mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5834-5

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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Humorous and beautiful

"I don't understand how you can walk past a tree without being happy," says Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his novel The Idiot. Perhaps this thought may explain the motif of women in trees, which was popular between the 1920s and 1950s but has not yet been addressed in any book. The enthusiastic collector of anonymous photography Jochen Raiß (1969-2022) discovered these motifs on flea markets. From boxes containing numerous snapshots of other people's lives, wildly jumbled together, he pulled out black-and-white photographs of women gazing into the camera's eye from dizzying heights and in surprising poses. This new edition of the two previous titles brings together gorgeous photos that Jochen Raiß collected over twenty-five years.